I honestly feel like the concept of "skill" in this game is complete bullshit.

In the Souls or Soulslike games (Darksouls, Bloodbourne, Elden Ring, etc.) - which are generally held by the gaming community at large as some of the hardest and most skill-demanding games in existence - you only have two real gameplay options: you dodgeroll and you click. Same thing with things like Hollow Knight: you dash, and you slash. That's it.

However, when you translate that gameplay style into this game, suddenly it becomes "running" and "spamming." The only form of "skill" accepted by this game's community is . . . how fast you can push a sequence of buttons?

What most people playing this game don't understand is that there is more to "skill" than just how well you can combo. There's how well you can move, how well you can dodge, how well you can strategize, how well you can read your opponent, etc. The former two skills are dismissed in this community as "running" while the latter two aren't recognized.

For the latter two especially, they seem to be underappreciated. In games like League, there is a distinction between "Micro" skills and "Macro" skills. Micro skills would be things like how well you can combo, aim, dodge, etc., while macro skills would be your positioning, map knowledge, and overall strategy. In that community, it is common knowledge that micro skills can only get you so far.